The School of Nursing and Midwifery is pleased to welcome Professor Kathryn King-Shier from the University of Calgary in Canada. She has a particular interest in ethnicity and gender in cardiovascular care and her visit coincides with the newly-published special issue (April 2018) ‘Ethnicity in Cardiovascular Care’ of the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing that includes an editorial by her, Prof Donna Fitzsimons, Dr Chantal Ski and Prof David Thompson.